README -  France Datasets	

Project:  Skinner Spatial Analysis Project
Department:  Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
Project Director:  Peter K. Bol
Project Manager:  Lex Berman

Data Creators:

G. William Skinner
Ted W. Margadant


DISCLAIMER:  The France datasets were not finalized.  Attempts to edit the files could not verify if the names or joined variables were correct.  Please see France_Data_Questions.txt for processing details.

contact email:  chgis@fas.harvard.edu

UPDATED:  2018-04-18

SEE RELATED DOCUMENTS:  
1. FRANCE_DATASETS_COORDINATE_SYSTEMS
2. README_France_Datasets.txt

CONTENTS:

1)  FranceN   (Cantons)

Features: 2996 polygons

Charset Encoding:  ISO-8859-1

Projections:  

FOLDER "WGS84":  WGS84 Decimal Degrees (EPSG: 4326)

FOLDER "LAMBERTCC": Lambert Conformal Conic (Custom Projection)

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2)  Data Dictionary
FranceN Dataset: Cantons, 1806-96  [FranceN_Code_Manual.pdf]

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3)  UPDATE OF CANTON NAMES IN CORSICA

FranceN_Corsica_Names_Update_LB_20180417.xlsx

[53 Names were missing from France Cantons dataset, and others were updated to reflect historical names on 1894 Map. Edited by Lex Berman, 2018-04-18]